Stuart Percy, a cerebral defenceman drafted 25th overall by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the first round of last summer’s NHL draft, is still not skating more than a month after suffering a concussion in a game with his junior hockey team.

There is no timetable for his return, though both the Leafs and his junior team coach have dismissed a report suggesting he has been shelved for the rest of the season. Percy signed a three-year entry-level contract with the Leafs in November.

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The 18-year-old captain of the Mississauga St. Michael’s Majors was injured on Dec. 11, when two members of the Kitchener Rangers checked him at the same time, sending him headfirst into the boards after he had released the puck. He was initially diagnosed with a case of whiplash, but the concussion soon emerged, and Percy has still not returned.

“He’s not skated once,” Majors coach James Boyd said on Friday.

It is not known when he might resume.

“You never know,” said Boyd, who is also the team’s general manager. “Maybe he starts feeling great. Last week, actually, he felt pretty good. He was doing some physical activity and got a headache, so it was a setback. Maybe he could be back if everything goes OK. Who knows how long these things last?”

This is the third time Percy has been injured this season, and is likely the second time he has been concussed. The first was in September, when he was elbowed in the face during an NHL rookie tournament and forced to the sidelines with what was suspected, though not officially confirmed, to be a concussion.

He was sidelined by a knee injury in October, but returned to the ice and was averaging almost a point-per-game with the Majors, who are retooling after a run to the Memorial Cup championship game last spring. Percy has 22 points in 25 regular-season games.

The Majors are not rushing him back to the lineup. Boyd said he spoke with Percy last week to make sure the teenager knew there was no pressure to return before the last of his symptoms had disappeared, and that he was fully recovered.

“I think it’s extremely frustrating for him,” Boyd said. “He’s a competitor. The uncertainty; you’ve got to wait for the symptoms to disappear, and then slowly start incorporating physical fitness. And if you get your headaches again, you go back to square one.”

The Leafs have received regular updates about Percy’s condition. Toronto made two picks in the first round of the draft last June in Minnesota. The team drafted winger Tyler Biggs with the 22nd pick and took Percy three picks later.

Toronto’s director of amateur scouting, Dave Morrison, has described Percy as, “a really intelligent player” who just needed to mature and build his strength. The Leafs accept that development will be delayed until he returns to full health, whenever that may be.

“Clearly, you’d like him playing,” Dave Poulin, vice-president of hockey operations for the Leafs, said on Friday. “You want everybody playing, but I would be hard-pressed to find a hockey player, at some stage of his career, who doesn’t go through a time like this. It’s more magnified for him because he’s a first-round draft pick of the Toronto Maple Leafs, playing for a Toronto-area team.”

That team was seventh in the Ontario Hockey League’s Eastern Conference heading into play on Friday, but was only three points out of fourth. This is Percy’s third season with the Majors, who lost the OHL title in seven games last spring before rebounding to within a game of the Canadian title at the Memorial Cup.

“Ten years ago, maybe he’s playing right now,” Boyd said. “But now that we realize the ill effects, you just can’t take the chance.”